Played the beta. The controls were pretty awesome. There's a dodge button, and auto-attack is retained. I enjoyed just strafing a circle around a boss and without having to worry about clicking on "attack." Swimming is also much better than most MMORPGS. You can actually go underwater and fight creatures. Also, I like how the first two skills are mapped to weapons. Maxing out every weapon my class knows was a pleasant diversion from quests and made the grinding fun.

Rezzing is a bit of a mixed bag. Other players can heal you at any time after you die. However, self-rezzing is more complicated. You need a couple of gold to rez at a checkpoint. If you don't have the gold, you kind of have to wait for somebody to rez you. Which wasn't too bad for me at the time, because other players get XP for rezzing someone (about as much as killing an enemy), and the place was crowded. There's also enough gold tossed around that running out of money isn't much of a problem. Still, it sucks to wait. There's also a chance to save yourself before death, much like in Borderlands. If you can kill an enemy or bring your health back up by hitting buttons on a unique "death" skillbar before you're well and truly dead, you're back in the game.

The "Events" were pretty rad as well, and really emphasized the importance of community. It took like 20 people to bring down this giant 200 ft. tall fire colossus, but the effect of seeing such an epic battle cannot be understated.

Character Creation was pretty intricate as well. Much more intricate than any other MMORPG I've played. It's almost Skyrim quality. And it gives you a lot of choices regarding the character's backstory, much like Mass Effect. I didn't have to play long for these choices to have an impact on the storyline. One of the choices if you're a Charr for example was "What was your father like." I chose the option of him being a disgrace of a soldier, and in one of the story quests, he goes AWOL and I have to track him down.

All in all, I'm pretty impressed with the beta. The only downside is that I was incapable of teaming up with my friends because when the server's full, they send you to an "overflow" location, and you have to wait in a queue before being put in the "real" server. The wait was just too long. The designers have said that this will be fixed before the final game.

^ Same story here.

I'm hoping to have enough friends interested in this game that it replaces LoL.



Nothing is going to replace LoL.

There's guns in Guild Wars now? I may have to look into this.

A_Tasty_Sub said:

There's guns in Guild Wars now? I may have to look into this.

There is ghostbusting in Guild Wars 2.

Somebody put up a video from the beta. It features the same class and race I picked, so it follows the story of a young charr who invents a gun that can kill ghosts even deader than usual. There's a story quest where you choose how to weaponize this technology...either into a giant canon or several smaller turrets. I thought that was pretty neat.



I didn't play any PvP, but here's a good review from people at Gamebreaker that really enjoyed the world vs. world gameplay. I guess weather machines are involved that can hinder your opponents? Seems cool.

http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/blown-away/

I played the thief and the necromancer in the latest beta.

The thief is a very active class that relies a lot on teleporting in and out of battle. It probably has the most options in terms of weapons, as it is a dual-wielding class. Since a lot of skills are tied into the weapon you're using, dual-wielding opens up a lot of skill variety. The skills you learn while wielding a gun in your primary hand and a dagger in your off-hand are even different than the skills you learn with the same weapons in different hands. There was a pretty neat skill where I stabbed a guy with a dagger, teleported back a few feet, and then shot him with a gun.

Necromancer had a lot of familiar skills like Chillblaines, but the best one involves you transforming into a lich-like being that shoots green fireballs at people. You get a new skill bar when you transform into this creature, and the screen goes into a fuzzy green state that looks pretty cool.

My buddy was rocking a ranger, and he seemed to have the ability to go back and forth between his animal companions pretty easily. He also had a skill that involved a flock of birds swooping down and devouring his targets that looked pretty cool.

All in all, I can't wait until I have the final version in my hands.

I've made an engineer on Yak Bend. Salynt

I've got a warrior on yak's bend you can invite. Name's Eris Kali Discordia

World vs. World is pretty amazing. I never tried it out on the beta, but the fact that sieges actually feel like sieges is a testament to the attention to detail. Waiting outside the keep and dodging boiling oil as you're trying to knock down the gate while your comrades bring in supplies to build siege weapons is a very unique experience. You also have the option of focusing on guerilla tactics with a smaller bunch of people and hijacking supply carts or lumber mills. There's even something single players can accomplish by themselves, such as taking out sentries posted on the roads. Very fulfilling so far.

The Guild name is Pugilists Inc. I'll send invites to people who want them.

no prob. WvW levels everybody up to 80. The skills and equipment of a new player might not be ideal, but they can still be competitive.

Use Dave's vent so I can jump in yell at you then leave.

new friend code Emmet.2943

Man, the overflow idea does not seem to be implemented well in party making. It's still a dice roll if you'll be able to play with your friends in PvE. And WvW seems to have a long wait time involved now that the game's launched.

I have this game now, so prepare for .... something. I haven't had a chance to make a character yet.

The Joel said:

I have this game now, so prepare for .... something. I haven't had a chance to make a character yet.

My body is ready.

So character's are locked to server they are created on? In the first Guild Wars it wasn't that way. :/

You can transfer servers, I believe.

Emmet said:

I wanted to do the WvW dungeon but i have no idea were the entrance is.

It's on the left side of the map from the Yak's Bend stronghold, I know that. It's a cave full of rat things. There's a skill point there, so that should show up on the map.

yes their are tons of face covering helmets

here is a lvl 43 necromancer charr
http://i.imgur.com/77KuV.jpg

Gah I don't know if I want this or not.

So what has been the most interesting race and profession to play so far? I'm curious about those who choose Norn as their race also. Having the racial ability to transform into various animals sounds pretty fun.

That sounds cool. I think I might go with the Charr race though. They had such an impact on the first campaign. That I'm intrigued in playing their race. That and I like their beginning racial ability. It's a buff that increases you and your allies critical hit and bonus damage to conditions. Not so cool as shape shifting for sure though.

I'm a Charr Engineer although the sylvari are my favorite as i just like being a mushroom head

Can't wait to get my elixir gun been doing skill point stuff for the past hour almost have the entire WvW map explored just need the Yak's Bend Zone

I really like the Yak's bend Server in WvW they are really organized and their is generally a leader and a few sub groups of people focused on objectives. Its nice to see a whole server working together although we shall see how well we do against the next 2 servers as we have pretty much destroyed these 2.

It's all because of that lake we took. Some of our enemies were trying to win over the aquatic natives by giving them pearls to become their friends. So we killed our enemies, took their pearls, and became better friends with the natives.